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Monday, June 20, 2016

Right click on the vm_template you want to clone and then
scroll down to Netapp VSC and choose the options Create Rapid Clones

It opens up a rapid clone wizard, choose a clone destination in my case cluster1 is my
destination

Ignore any FC/FCoE warnings and in the next tab select the
format , choose same format as Source or if you have any preference of choosing THIN or THICK

Choose how many virtual processor you want and how many
number of clones you want in my case I have chosen 11 and also can change the prefix of the clone machine name and choose No.of virtual processors, Memory in Size etc...

Click Next

Read through the difference between Basic and Advanced and choose which one you want to go with in my case i am going with BASIC.

Now select on to which Data store you want to save the
cloned machines or can create a new data store as well I am choosing nfs1

Check the summary and click finish

You should be able to see the cloned vm’s upon refresh, can
the check the column QUEUED FOR ( Probably Milliseconds )from the recent tasks below to know how fast is
Rapid Clone.

Solution:- Well in this case most of us will be in dead
end or contact Netapp Technical support

But what if my support contract already ended and no more
support from NetApp L,
that is what the exact situation I had with one of my customer and I have to
deal with it and fix it.

Netapp has got some excellent features one among them is
NETBOOT , in case if you don’t know about NETBOOT a little introduction

Netboot is a
procedure that can be used as an alternative way to boot a NetApp Storage
system from a Data ONTAP software image that is stored on a HTTP or TFTP
server. Netboot is typically used to facilitate specific recovery scenarios.
Some common scenarios are; correcting a failed upgrade, repairing a failed boot
media, and booting the correct kernel for the current hardware platform.

Where we can Netboot a controller via a TFTP or HTTP server
and then perform the repair of the root volume using WAFL_IRON & WAFL_CHECK